Old Stars Piscium and Tycho Give New Births Hundreds of millions or even billions of years after planets would have initially formed around two unusual stars, a second wave of planetesimal and planet formation appears to be taking place, UCLA astronomers and colleagues believe. "This is a ne...
An Atlas 5 rocket successfully launches the top-secret NROL-41 spacecraft for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) on September 20, 2010 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Rocket/Payload: ULA Atlas V carrying the National Rec...
This is the meteorite, currently in police hands, at the centre of a bizarre custody battle. It is actually believed to be the state's second-biggest stony meteorite, and now residents of Cunnamulla, about 825km west of Brisbane, are in a bitter dispute over this "peculiar-looking rock&quo...
A rare bronze signet ring with the impression of the face of the Greek sun god, Apollo, has been discovered at Tel Dor, in northern Israel, by University of Haifa diggers. When the ring was recovered from a waste pit near Hellenistic structures, it was covered with layers of earth and corrosion, and th...
Anthony Moffett and his 15-year-old son Kalen set out to hunt for meteorites yesterday and just may have found one. The father and son, who recently moved with their family from Colorado to the Woodside area of Hailey, are avid meteor hunters. But until Monday, they were unsuccessful at their chosen...
Hopes of finding the meteorite that fell in the local area on August 17 have lifted, with the Bombala Times having spoken with a new witness who saw the object fall. Just after news broke of the meteorite falling somewhere in the direction of Delegate last month, Research Geologist, Dr Andy Tomkins of...
After a mysterious rock is found in New Deal, a family makes the rare discovery that it is a meteorite. It was back in June that the Smith's came across an unusual stone in their front yard. Immediately they started researching and now more than two months later, their discovery will go down in history....
The Boltysh Crater is an impact crater in the Kirovohrad Oblast province of Ukraine. The crater is 24 km in diameter and its age of 65.17 ± 0.64 million years, based on argon dating techniques, is within error of that of Chicxulub Crater in Mexico, and the KT boundary. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/...
Optical flash on Jupiter optical flash on the surface of the Jupiter captured at 18h22m12s on August 20 (UT). Unfortunately this time is uncertain in ±1min. The video taken by an amateur astronomer, Mr. Masayuki Tachikawa in Kumamoto city, with using Philips Toucam Pro2 attached to the telescope,...
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Title: Orbital properties of binary minor planets Authors: Smadar Naoz, Hagai B. Perets, Darin Ragozzine Many binary minor planets (BMPs; both binary asteroids and binary Trans-Neptunians objects; TNOs) are known to exist in the Solar system. The currently observed orbital and physical prope...
A Russian Proton-M carrier rocket with three Glonass-M navigation satellites is scheduled to be launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan at 00:53 GMT, 2nd September, 2010.
